Section: Latest news

The United States, after the G20 summit where the West demonstrated its united stand against the actions of the Russian leadership, continues to urge Russia and its proxies in the occupied part of Ukraine to change their course and ensure the peaceful settlement of the crisis. A respective statement was made on Thursday by U.S. Ambassador to the...

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has met with President of the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) Michel Platini, the press service of the Ukrainian president has reported. In particular, Poroshenko said that when returning from the airport, he saw fifty football fans outside the building of the presidential administration who...

Participants in talks on the creation of a coalition in the Verkhovna Rada have initialed the text of the coalition agreement. Newly elected MP from the People’s Front Party Viktoria Siumar reported this on her Facebook page. “02.00. We have initialed the text. The presentation is scheduled for 12.30 on the Maidan anniversary by all...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has described “color revolutions” in some countries as a lesson and warning for Russia and urged to counteract their appearance in Russia by all means. He said this on Thursday at an enlarged meeting of the Russian Security Council on combating extremism, a Ukrinform correspondent in Russia. “In...

The OSCE Permanent Council has decided to extend the mandate of the observer mission on the Ukrainian-Russian border until December 23, 2014, according to a report posted on the website of the organization. “The mandate of the OSCE Observer Mission at the Russian checkpoints Gukovo and Donetsk has been extended by one month to December 23,...

The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) has predicted a decline in the Ukrainian economy in 2015 at 4.3%. NBU Governor Valeria Hontareva said this at the Fifth Ukrainian Investment Forum on Thursday, a Ukrinform correspondent reported. “I cannot tell you now about such things as economic growth, because such things will most likely look like a...

France is ready to join negotiations on the settlement of the situation in Donbas in the Weimar format, the possibility of which has recently been discussed by Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier. French Foreign Ministry spokesman Romain Nadal told this to a Ukrinform correspondent....

Foreign fighters and Russian servicemen operating in the east of Ukraine affect the human rights situation in the region, which continues to deteriorate. This is stated in a report by the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, which was published on Thursday, the organization’s press service reported. “The continuing...

The Minsk agreements on the peaceful settlement of the situation in Donbas should be fulfilled by all parties in deeds, not in words. Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko told this to journalists in Chisinau on Thursday. “The Minsk agreements are not only an immediate ceasefire and immediate release of hostages, the closure of borders for...

Russia has started openly supplying military cargo and manpower to terrorists operating in eastern Ukraine. Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) information and analytical center spokesman Andriy Lysenko said this at a briefing on Thursday, a Ukrinform correspondent reported. “We recorded the open transportation by the...